Inspired by the sight of the American flag after battle, Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Its vivid imagery captured the spirit of survival, symbolizing the nation's push for ...

Seamstress Betsy Ross is the subject of flag folklore, but written evidence points to the lawyer, musician, and Declaration ...

Ages ago, I traveled overland from Europe to Nepal: the Orient Express train from Munich to Istanbul, a boat through the ...

Benson Boone has charmed his way to the top—and that really seems to bother some people.

“The Star Spangled Banner” has long been derided ... Our anthem proves metaphoric once again: The banner about which Key wrote was not the banner about which we sing. The banner flown over ...

Then he started to play “The Star-Spangled Banner ... As the composer Paul Grimstad wrote in The New Yorker in 2021, Hendrix’s version of the song “was, among other things, an act ...

Stravinsky’s "Star-Spangled Banner" challenges listeners ... music for their club’s “constitutional song.” The lyrics to that version, written by Society president Ralph Tomlinson ...

“Imagine if white people coveted humanity the way y’all covet this dumb-ass song,’ one tweet read, referencing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” One person called Reeves “toxic” after ...

Sunday is "National Anthem Day" which marks the day that the "Star-Spangled Banner" was adopted as the country's national anthem Francis Scott Key wrote the ... recognized the song in 1889 and ...

known as the Star-Spangled Banner, flying triumphantly above the fort during the U.S. victory. The poem was set to the tune of a popular British song written by John Stafford Smith for the ...